Agreed, but I don’t think there are going to be any publications (whether digital or print) accepting work via submission with renumeration. I think that the media brands that we see today will just start sliding this stuff in at the low end of stuff, then, as it gets better, replace everything. There is not going to be a “side hustle” in creating content - regardless of whether it is original human created writing or AI generated content. Why would an SF print publication or CNET pay anyone for anything when they can generate it themselves? So the traditional outlets will first close the doors to outside human and AI contributions, before they are themselves destroyed by the flood of AI content that is coming through new channels - AI social media posts with ads against them, websites that track google and social media trends and auto generate SEO content against those, etc.
I don’t think there will be a commercial market for any “creative” content at some point some because the people with the purse strings don’t think they need it anymore. There will just be this ocean of AI generated garbage that is “good enough to run ads against” and nobody will be able to make money off of creative works except the people that already own the distribution channels and brands
This is where I think we end up…though I think it will take a while and when we do get there it will be even more horrible in some capitalist way that I am not equipped (thank god) to imagine. I think that you will pay for it, and you will have to pay for it one way or another and forever
